Island Records plan the release of In Dub, Volume One featuring Bob Marley & The Wailers, planned for CD release on July 17. Eagle Rock will issue Live at Montreux featuring Etta James on CD , scheduled for July 24. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have talked at considerable length about our love and respect for both male and female performers/singers/songwriters. For many years these talents have filled us with songs, thrilling performances, and flashy showmanship. The years prior to the New Millennium gave […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just wanted to pop in here and apologize for my lack of posts, which all now have to be produced on a netbook from here until Jan/Feb of 2013. The reason for this is that the TAP clan have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like the great female artists of the long and great Rock era, that same period also had its share of male artists. And what a cast they were. Elvis Presley, Bobby Dylan, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Opening with the same fade-up technique that first greeted listeners forty years ago, Thick As A Brick 2 quickly establishes itself as something new. After the oddly familiar opening, it slips into an organ-driven riff that, if it were amplified […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a kind of Dick Clarkian good idea here. I want to explore it and get opinions about music that might be obscure, from different eras, or, even from this time. The reason why I’m doing this is because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the last week, we have lost a few luminaries of Rock. And although I have become loathe to visit these things unless I seem forced to it, I feel compelled to drop a few lines this morning. My words […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mercury Records (UK) plan to release the new Amy MacDonald album, Life Is A Beautiful Light, on June 11. If you remember her excellent “Mr Rock and Roll” from her equally captivating 2007 album, This Is The Life, then this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the beginnings of Rock turned corners leading itself through its own aging process, it left behind many legends. One side of its list of legends is the female performer. Many of them took the self-named route; names like Joni […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The newest album from The Sweet, a band that still survives under the watchful care of original member Andy Scott, still has that instantly recognizable Sweet sound fashioned decades earlier when the band cranked out plenty of Top40 hits. But this album […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…